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XBox and Microsoft : Project Natal
Gaming has entered a new revolutionary world with the rising popularity of gaming consoles from all major hardware manufacturers everywhere. In the midst of all this competition, survival calls for something innovative. Wii tried to do it, but they still needed sensors. Microsoft, has this feature lined up to be integrated into the next XBox360 anytime now. This feature is being managed...
Tags: Project Natal, XBox360
Wave: The New Tech Trend at Google, Microsoft and Adobe
The way we use the Internet and out desktop has changed drastically over the last one year, and suddenly every web and software company is coming out with a wave of it’s own.
Here is a short surf on the three waves I know of :
Google Wave
Google is one company which always comes up with ideas which stand out and are the need of the moment. A few days back, my roommate Pallab showed...
Intel Larrabee : 5+1 Things You Did Not Know
As the battle for the number of cores increases, Intel has bigger plans in mind. We all have probably heard about the Intel’s new GPU larrabee by now.
Here are a few facts about Intel Larrabee:
Larrabee is not a GPU. Yes. It is a codename for a CPU microarchitecture. Larrabee is a multi-core microarchitecture like the duo and the quad. It is based on the Pentium P54c and has been designed to...
Microsoft Banished Memcpy
Microsoft has decided to ban another buffer manipulating function. This time, it is memcpy(). Long after banning dubious security vulnerabilities like strcpy(), strcat(), strncpy(), strncat() and gets(), Microcoft has finally decided to ban the memcpy() function and place it in the C and C++ recommended banned API list. This ban has been confirmed by inside sources.
The function memcpy has a syntax...



